The Chinese power utility China Huadian Group has ordered four 660 MW steam turbine generators manufactured by Harbin Electric for its Qinghai Huadian Qaidam Desert Golmud East Base coal-fired power project in Golmud City, in the Haixi Mongolian Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province (western China). The project will be the world's highest ultra-supercritical (USC) coal-fired power project. It is part of China Huadian's 19 GW Qaidam Golmud project worth CNY80bn (US$11bn), which will feature 16 GW of renewables (solar and wind), but also coal-fired power, with the deployment of four 660 MW ultra-supercritical coal units, already approved by the Qinghai Development and Reform Commission. In addition, the project will feature a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS).
China Huadian started construction in March 2025 and plans to complete the project by 2027. Once completed, the complex will be able to transmit 36.5 TWh/year of electricity to the Guangxi province (southern China) via an 800 kV ultra-high-voltage (UHV) direct current transmission line, the “Qinghai-Guangxi UHV DC Project”, currently being developed by State Grid Corporation of China.
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